American historian

Jacob L*ner is an American writer and Jewish studies academic. He is the Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish civilization Emeritus at Northwestern University and former Director of the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies. L*ner specializes in Medieval Near Eastern history with an emphasis on urban structures, political culture and the background to Jewish-Muslim relations.

Contents

• 1 Education and honors
• 2 Books
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Education and honors

L*ner received a PhD degree from Yale University in 1963.

L*ner has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the American Council of Learned Societies-Social Science Research Council.

Books

• Medieval Jerusalem: Forging an Islamic City in Spaces Sacred to Christians and Jews (University of Michigan Press, 2017)
• Islam in the Middle Ages (2010 projected issue date); co-author
• Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces: Memory and Communal Conflict in the Medieval Near East
• Jews and Muslims in the Arab World: Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined (2007); co-author
• Islamic Revolution and Historical Memory: an inquiry (2005)
• Cairo's Ben Ezra Synagogue: a gateway . . (2001)
• The Middle East Remembered; Forged Iden*ies, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces (2000)
• A Mediterranean Society: an abridgement in one volume (1999); co-author
• History of Al Tabari: The 'Abbasid Recovery:: The War Against the Zanj (Suny Series in Near Eastern Studies) (1987); co-author
• Islamic Revolution and Historical Memory (1986)
• The History of Al-Tabari (1984); co-author
• The Shaping of Abbasid Rule (1980)
• The Topography of Baghdad in the early Middle Ages;: Text and studies by Jacob L*ner (1970); co-author
• Demonizing the Queen of Sheba: Boundaries of Gender and Culture in Postbiblical Judaism and Medieval Islam (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism) (1993)

References

External links

"Brief biography," Department of History, Northwestern University.